We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Knowing Is Not Enough; We Must Apply. Wishing Is Not Enough; We Must Do.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

Never deprecate another person's sufferings even when imaginary.

Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.

It is by faith that poetry as well as devotion soars above this dull earth that imagination breaks through its clouds breathes a purer air and lives in a softer light.

When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters.

It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]

I'm concerned about organized religion getting away with what it gets away with.

The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.

I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

I was up above it Now I'm down in it.